Tycon Systems Informative Speech

Sara Staschke
Informative Outline
Topic: Tycon Systems
General Purpose: to Inform
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about my company, Tycon Systems.
Thesis: Our company started in 2008, now we have over 260 products, three lines, and sell product on
every continent except Antarctica.

I.

Introduction
A.
Attention Getter: By 2020 as the scale of deployments grows and
the costs continue to decline more than 80 percent of the world's people
will live in regions where solar will be competitive with electricity from other
sources. -Al Gore
B.
Reason to Listen: learn more about a local up and coming company, as
well as alternative options when powering equipment, as well as expanding a
wireless internet service.
C.
Thesis Statement: Tycon Systems began in 2008 with only two
employees and one line of products. This company has grown tremendously
in the past 7 years.
D.
Credibility Statement
1.
Tycon Systems Designs & manufactures turnkey Remote Power
Systems such as RemotePro utilizing solar & wind, Outdoor Backup Power
Systems (UPSPRO), unique Power over Ethernet, and power conversion
products. Tycon also manufactures point-to-point wireless systems (EZBridge) for connecting IP Networks up to 3+ miles @ 100 Mbps.
2.
We have won awards from the state as well as being invited to the
Hanover Messe Trade show in Europe

E.

Preview of Main Points:

1.
2.
3.

II.

How Tycon Started

How We Operate
What Products we carry

How Tycon Systems Started

A.
Scott Parsons started Pacific Wireless in March of 1999 and sold in Feb
2005 with plans of retiring. After a few months of boredom he decided to start
up Beezwax Products in his garage in 2008, which soon changed to Tycon
Systems.
B.
Tycon Systems started with two employees; Scott Parsons and his wife
Anita Parsons. Scott had chosen to name the company Beezwax Products
which was soon changed to Tycon Systems after their sons Tyler and Connor
Parsons.
C.
Tycon began with Point to Point wireless bridges and soon evolved a
much larger inventory ranging from Remote Power Solutions and Power over
Ethernet equipment to the Wireless bridges.

Transition: Now that we know how Tycon Systems started we can now talk about how we operate.

III.

How Tycon Systems Operates

A.
We have a 14.5 thousand square foot warehouse in Bluffdale, UT with
13 employees, operating Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm.
B.
We sell our products mainly through distribution, but we also sell direct
through tycononline.com (sold at list price)
C.
We have 24 distributors and 14 resellers, 20 of these are in the United
States alone. Our top 5 Distributors are Streakwave, Baltic Networks, RTK
Tech located in Moscow, Rainman Weather, and Flytec Computers. In 2015
alone we sold product to over 72 countries.
Our company is recognized by the Governors Trade Mission to Western
Europe. In 2014 and 15 we won awards for best of state, manufacturing, and
wholesale. This year the United States Delegation of Hanover Messe (the
largest trade show in the world) has welcomed us to their show, which we will
be attending the end of April. Yearly we attend about 10 trade shows,
including WISPA Palooza, the World AG Expo, ISC West, and many more.
These shows help us to market our products, a key tool to any business would
be tradeshows.

IV.

What we Manufacture
A.
Our top 5 products for this quarter so far are our 5 Port High Power
Gigabit PoE Switch, Remote Power Monitor, 12V-24V DC-DC Converter, 16
port Gigabit Midspan, and our Uninterupted Power System with a steel
enclosure.
B.
We also carry Remote Power Systems, this would consist of our Solar
Kits and Systems which come complete with everything including the solar
panel, mounting hardware, cables, batteries, enclosure, and charge controller.
We carry our Battery Backup Systems or Uninterupted Power Systems with
everything except the solar panels. We have a Remote Power monitor which
can monitor two voltages as well as two temperatures, and you can control
this via our mobile app. Our Wind turbine is a low cost way to generate 400W
of power at 10-15m/s of power.
C.
Tycon Wireless is what started this company. Our point to point bridges
and access points allow for people without knowledge of wireless to expand
their network. This system is pre-configured, all the end-user has to do is set
them up and this system is ready to go. You can also add on access point to
the pair to extend the network even further. These are either 2.4 or 5 GHz
systems that need either 3-8 miles good line of sight in order to work at the
optimal level of up to 100 Mb/s.

D.
Our PoE Equipment starts with our Injectors which take in power and
data on separate wires and puts out data and power in one single connection,
hence the term Power over Ethernet. Next are our switches, these come in
handy when you have say four cameras you need to get data and power to
and from. You would input the PoE in one port and the rest of the devices will
now receive power and data. We then have our splitters which do the
opposite of the injectors the take in on one single wire data and power and
split the power and data on two separate wires.

V.

Conclusion
A.

Review of Main Points:

1.
2.
3.

How we started
How we operate
What we manufacture

B.
Restate Thesis: Tycon Systems started from one product line with two
main products in a garage, with only two employees. From here our company
has grown, we now have 13 employees, 14.5 thousand square feet of
warehouse, and over 260 products sold all over the world.
C.
Closure: In conclusion, Tycon Systems has proven to be a very
successful company that is still expanding. Tycon Systems has a market for
off the grid power and easy to use equipment. Tycon systems has low cost,
high quality products that many people use on a daily basis.
Do you have any questions?

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Gore, Al. "The Turning Point: New Hope for the Climate." Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone, 18 June 2014. Web. 21 Mar.
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Parsons, Scott. "What Is Tycon Systems About?" Personal interview. 16 Mar. 2016.
Allen, Seth. "Tell me about Tycons Products" Personal interview. 16 Mar. 2016.
Staschke, Sara, and Scott Parsons. "Tycon Systems." Tycon Systems Inc - Home. Sara Staschke, Sept.Oct. 2015. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.